Release Blitz for Calloused & Scarred Hearts by Lexi Kingston

 

Calloused & Scarred Hearts by Lexi Kingston is now live!

What do you do when you run out of places to hide from yourself? 

Lindsay Birmingham is exceptional at concealing her true feelings with sarcasm and a smile, but lately, her carefully crafted persona has begun to unravel. 

She escaped her past in every way but in her head, and even a successful modeling career and five chaotic roommates can't distract her from the memories she has spent her entire life running from. 

Her impulse is to avoid anything that makes her feel. 

Parker McClaren makes her feel too much. 

He has been in love with the closed-off, prickly girl down the hall since they were teenagers, but after years apart, he can't deny she's different now. 

When he sees an opportunity to breach the friend zone, he seizes it, rocking the already delicate foundation of their friendship. 

Emotionally unavailable or not, Parker is determined to test her limits, and each time she pushes him away, he moves in closer.

Calloused & Scarred Hearts is book two in the Lonely Melodies contemporary romance series of interconnected standalone novels. If you love a sarcastic, stubborn heroine and a man who refuses to give up on her, then you'll fall in love with this romantic journey of healing, self-love, and learning to be vulnerable. 

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Meet Lexi Kingston

Contemporary romance author Lexi Kingston started writing when she was fifteen years old solely because she was obsessed with the idea of creating fictional worlds like the ones she lived through growing up. There was this thrilling allure to writing characters that you can relate to and find pieces of yourself within that she couldn't shake, and this eventually drew her to fiction writing. She wanted to create a world people could get lost in--a fictional safe haven, if you will. A place filled with endless possibilities, where you can lose yourself, yet find yourself within the pages. 

 

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"Bears all the hallmarks of addictive YA fantasy. . . This is going to be huge.” —Laura Steven, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates, on Heir of Storms

Return to the spellbinding world of Heir of Storms in the explosive second installment to the Storm Weaver trilogy, perfect for fans of Red Queen, Throne of Glass, and The Rose Bargain.

Weaving together the trajectories of these individual lives with the collective memory of Europe, this devastatingly beautiful novel is suffused with wisdom and compassion.

Book Review for Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score

 

Story Lake #2

Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score

Published:  March 10, 2026 by Bloom Books

Genre:   Small Town Romance,  Opposites Attract,  Forced Proximity,  Found Family,  Hero / Rescuer,  Neurodivergent Heroine 

Taken from Goodreads:  #1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score, whose smash hit Things We Never Got Over captured millions of hearts, invites you back to Story Lake for a swoon-worthy new small town romantic comedy.

He's looking for the perfect wife. She's looking for the perfect one-night stand.

Literary agent Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's totally broke.

All she needs is for Hazel's next romance novel to become a gigantic hit, and Zoey will be back in New York. Nothing will stand in her way. Nothing except her six-foot-two-inch landlord, Gage Bishop. He's smart, serious, and sexy. Worst of all, he's ready to settle down.

Zoey might be the most beautiful woman Gage has ever met, but it's clear they're all wrong for each other. She's allergic to commitment and can't work a calendar app; he's looking for a wife and has the next five years all planned out. She's afraid of animals. He lives in a literal barn. But when Gage's world is rocked by a devastating family secret, he turns to Zoey for one night to forget everything. That one night just might change everything…or ruin it.

Perfect for fans of the heart, humor, and hope found in Things We Never Got Over and Things We Left Behind, Mistakes Were Made is a steamy escape to small town romance―full of emotional twists, slow-burn tension, and Lucy Score's trademark charm.

 

My Thoughts:  I was looking for a fun, sexy, flirty read and Lucy Score is an author that writes that type of book.  Mistakes were Made is that book.   Gage and Zoey had the attraction from the very first look.  Hazel, the BFF, is the perfect sidekick for all the fun and angst. 

 I enjoyed the secondary characters as much as the main characters.   The friendships and other relationships were just as entertaining as Zoey and Gage.  I could feel the love between everyone and liked that they stood up for each other and protected each other but were not afraid to call each other out when they were not in agreement. 

This is a LARGE book, 500+ pages, and it read like a large book.   There are a lot of characters and many side stories.  There were times that it felt like too much.   Some of the wording could have been left out as it seemed repetitive or too much. 

Thank you Hambright PR for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for my  honest review.

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Meet the Author (taken from her website):  Lucy was born January 30th, 1980. Her father begged her mother not to go into labor on “the coldest night of the year,” which is naturally when Lucy decided to make her appearance. As the first of what would be three children, she took the responsibility of breaking her parents’ spirits very seriously. No one recalls what her first word was because it was in the days before baby books and social media. Motivated by this un-memorability, perhaps her future career was decided then and there. Or it could have had something to do with the hundreds of books her parents read aloud to her and her siblings. At 13, she stole her first romance novel off her mother’s bookshelf and never looked back.

 

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Release Blitz for Hade by Anastasija White

 

Hade by Anastasija White is now live!

She's my best friend's little sister and the only person who can save me from my darkness.

RILEY EVANS has been in love with her sister’s best friend HAYDEN HALE for as long as she can remember. He’s never noticed her, and even when he finally does, he keeps his distance.

Years later, Hayden is a world-famous musician, shattered by his friend’s death and drowning in guilt inside his penthouse walls. Riley walked away from the stage and chose to teach kids ballet instead of chasing unattainable perfection.

When her sister asks her to check on Hayden, Riley doesn’t expect to connect with him in such a close way. She definitely doesn’t expect one night to change everything.

Now she’s pregnant with his child.

With the press circling and his grief pinning him in place, Hayden is terrified of destroying the only person who makes him feel alive—Riley. And yet he can’t help but fall for her. Will he finally admit that she’s never been invisible to him, or will he lose her forever because she’s done waiting for him to choose her?
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HADE is a steamy accidental pregnancy rockstar romance. The book two of Hale Brothers series and can be read as a standalone.

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Meet Anastasija White

Anastasija is an indie author who spends her days creating swoon-worthy and steamy stories that will make your heart race. Her writing is filled with flawed and relatable characters that you'll find yourself rooting for. Whether you're in the mood for angsty drama or steamy romance, her stories take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions with guaranteed happy endings.

When she's not writing, she loves to lose herself in reading books, rewatching her favorite tv-shows and spending time with her son. She loves traveling and exploring the world, and then including places she visited in her novels.
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If you're a fan of romance that leaves you breathless and begging for more, Anastasija is the author for you. Connect with her on Instagram and TikTok, where she loves to hear from her readers and share sneak peeks of her books and upcoming projects.

 

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Book Review for Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

 

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

Published:   March 10, 2026 by Atria Books

Genres:  Contemporary Romance, Magical Realism

Taken from Goodreads:  The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.

Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren’s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won’t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models—and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

Then one summer, Lauren’s husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn’t expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren’s first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.

As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.

 

My Thoughts:   A unique story about turning back time.   What if you had a silver ticket that allows you to go back in time one time in your life, change an event for yourself or someone important to you?   How do you decide when to use this ticket?  What event is important enough to change?

Once and Again is a book that covers some tough subjects.   There is a love triangle, infertility, and death.  These are written carefully and with much respect, but they are still tough.  The mother daughter relationship is realistic and one that I could relate to. 

I enjoyed the book; it is not my favorite from Rebecca Serle.  Yet I am still thinking about the book and talking about it. 

Thank you Atria Books for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

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Meet the Author (taken from her website):  Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Once and Again, Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com. 

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Release Blitz for Right Your Wrongs by Kandi Steiner

 

Right Your Wrongs by Kandi Steiner is now live! What happens when the youngest, most successful coach in the NHL comes face-to-face with the woman he never got over — only to find out she’s married to his new General Manager? Everything I’ve spent my life building is suddenly at risk. I loved Ariana Ridley long before the world knew my name. Before the NHL. Before the pressure of being one of the youngest coaches in the league. Before I learned how to survive by locking my heart down tight. Leaving her was the hardest thing I’ve ever done — and the one choice I never made peace with. Now she’s back. And she belongs to another man. My new General Manager. I tell myself I can handle it. Discipline is my job. Control is my strength. I know how to keep my distance — how to respect the lines that should never be crossed. But every glance drags the past to the surface. Every quiet moment reminds me the love I buried never died. I see the cracks she tries to hide, the fear she’s learned to live with, and the way she still looks at me like I’m the one place she can breathe. I want to protect her. I want to fight for her. And I want things I have no right to want. Because if I cross that line, I don’t just risk my career — I risk shattering the woman I never stopped loving. Some choices haunt us forever. Some loves never let go. And trying to right my wrongs might just ruin us both. Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Amazon: geni.us/rightyourwrongs Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4oLxctl